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Maeve Ellis follows the numbers
Economics and history trained the new CBC Saskatchewan reporter to analyze data, question sources and check what a story can support.
The context
Where the work begins
Maeve Ellis chose economics and history as preparation for journalism. Economics taught her to work with data; history taught her to examine texts and their sources. She put both to use during three years at the Varsity and an internship at the Investigative Journalism Foundation.
The takeaway
What follows
For one story, Ellis analyzed Toronto beach waterfowl counts, found a decline and checked her analysis with experts. At the foundation, she also used AI summaries but stressed that journalists still had to verify the material. She has now joined CBC Saskatchewan as a reporter and associate producer, taking her research skills into a newsroom beyond her hometown.
Source reporting
Maeve Ellis follows the numbers
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